geek v.1
1. (also geek out) to experience severe symptoms of heroin withdrawal.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 25: What if I went and geeked out on you? What about this here fever I had? |
2. ; also to deal obsessively with surrounding inanimate objects after a binge on strong amphetamine drugs.
| Workin’ It 133: If I’m geeked, I might drink some milk, you know. | |
| Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 geekin Definition: the typical psychomotor reaction exhibited by a crack user; exemplified by facial tics, repeated lip-chewing, prolific window-checking, and carpet-prospecting. Example: Aw, hell nah, that muthafuckin Clarence suckin’ the devil’s dick again, geekin like a muthafucka and shit. | |
| ADS-L 26 Mar. 🌐 More recently I heard the term ‘geeking out’ used to describe the state of going around sniffing, tasting and feeling everything in sight that people go through after a binge on methamphetamine or similar drugs. |
3. (orig. computing/US campus, also geek out) to devote oneself to one’s own (computing, obsessive) pursuits in an environment where such pursuits are disdained.
| Campus Sl. Oct. 4: geek [...] not acting socially acceptable: We geeked and studied last night. geek out – study hard, particularly in physics or computer science. | |
| Sl. and Sociability 30: In college slang out is the most productive particle: [...] geek out ‘study hard’. | |
 | posting at ADS-L 6 Dec. 🌐 Geek out is old hacker slang. It’s in one of Raymond’s early Jargon Files, I believe. The usage there concerned doing something geeky in a non-geek context, such as playing on someone’s home computer during a party. | |
| ADS-L 26 Mar. 🌐 Geeking out is also hacker slang for indulging in techno-lust, playing with computers or other tech gadgets at an inappropriate time (e.g. at a social event), or any form of tech indulgence that non-techies may not understand. |
4. (US campus, also geek out) to act stupidly, or in a way that counters the cultural norm.
| Campus Sl. Mar. | |
| Da Bomb 🌐 12: Geekin’ or Geeking: Performing actions in the form of a geek (fool). | |
| Online Sl. Dict. 🌐 geek v 1. to display an embarrassing amount of happiness. (‘She geeked when he asked her out.’). | |
| ADS-L 27 Mar. 🌐 You didn’t have to be a druggie to geek out though. If someone who didn’t fit in got into a rage or acted out in some way, they were geeking out. Also if someone who did fit in acted out in some way that was considered geek-like, they would be teased for geekin’ out. | |
| Cobble Hill 216: ‘The mystery is gone. I decided to completely geek out on you’ . |
5. (US) to fool someone, to render stupid.
| Tattoo of a Naked Lady 195: She geeked you, boy! [...] My baby doll geeked you good! |
6. to yearn, to desire greatly.
| I Got a Monster 228: He was geeking to share his role in this incredible tale. |
In derivatives
(drugs) intoxicated by a drug, usu. cocaine.
| Dealing Crack 72: They might be so geeked up they try to pull off with the shit. They be ’noid [paranoid] with us, so we gotta be ’noid with them. | |
| My Elegant Barnyard 298: By the time we arrived we were all so geeked up we didn't know straight up from sickum. | |
| I Had Give Up [ebook] I got geeked up on cocaine and alcohol, going into the probation office [...] telling all the probation officers, ‘I’m going to kill everybody’. | |
| God Bless My Rudeboy 4: I could tell by Doodle’s composure and his speech that he was high, or as we say in Georgia, ‘geeked up’. | |
| Unfinished Death 8: ‘If you’re geeked up on meth, at least cut me in on some.’ ‘I’m not doing meth, Mike! It interferes with my job description’. |